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Introducing Self-Serve Configuration Options for OAuth in 10.4 (UI, Terraform & Via API) | Grafana

Grafana 10.4 introduces self-serve configuration options for OAuth, to make setting up SSO for your Grafana instance simple and fast. All of the currently supported OAuth providers are now available for configuration through the Grafana UI, Terraform, and via the API. In this video, we show you how to configure Oauth in Grafana’s UI. ☁️ Grafana Cloud is the easiest way to get started with Grafana dashboards, metrics, logs, and traces. Our forever-free tier includes access to 10k metrics, 50GB logs, 50GB traces and more. We also have plans for every use case.

Reduce context switching while troubleshooting with Datadog's IDE plugins

Visibility into the production performance of code iterations helps developers verify that application releases and updates are working as intended. However, when variables such as large-scale user requests and increased server load create issues that were absent during testing, developers will often need to pivot from investigating production data back to their coding environment to address errors and vulnerabilities.

Grafana 10.4 release: Grafana Alerting improvements, visualization updates, new plugin, and more

Grafana 10.4 is here! The latest version of Grafana introduces feature updates, a new plugin, as well as provides a preview of functionality we intend to make generally available in Grafana 11, which will be featured at GrafanaCON 2024 in April. Download Grafana 10.4 Until then, the Grafana 10.4 release includes upgrades to the canvas, geomap, and table visualizations. There is also a quicker way to set up alert notifications in Grafana Alerting and a new UI for configuring SSO.

Driving Culture Change: Phorest's Observability Transformation

Phorest wanted a tool to help foster a culture of observability among the engineers at an affordable and predictable price. With their application stack hosted on AWS, Phorest delivers a premier software solution that empowers their salon and spa business customers to thrive. Ensuring every engineer has access to an observability tool is integral to the company's success model, enabling them to deliver great code for their designated software services.

Alternatives to Pingdom - 16 Best Pingdom Alternatives in 2024 for Website Monitoring

In today's digital world, how fast a website works is very important for any business. If a website loads slowly, is often not available, or has errors, it can make users unhappy, lower its visibility on search engines, and affect profits. As we enter 2024, many people are looking for better tools to check their websites. They are thinking about other options besides the popular Pingdom. They want tools that provide more benefits, are more cost-effective, or both.

New Streamlined Plan Structure

As the landscape of real-time monitoring evolves, so does the diversity and complexity of use cases that our community brings to Netdata. Our mission has always been to democratize monitoring by making it accessible, powerful, and scalable for everyone. With the rapid growth of our user base and their expanding needs, it's become clear that our plan structure must evolve to maintain this mission sustainably.